Adhesion of waste water bacteria to reverse osmosis membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-42

  Sadr Ghayeni, S B ^a   Beatson, P J ^a   Schneider, R P ^a   Fane, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacterial adhesion; Conditioning films; Fouling; Microfiltration; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; BACTERIA; ELECTROPHORESIS; FOULING; PH EFFECTS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEWAGE BACTERIOLOGY; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER FILTRATION;

HYDROPHOBICITY; MICROFILTRATION;

OSMOSIS MEMBRANES;

BACTERIUM; MEMBRANE; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; IONIC STRENGTH; MEMBRANE; NANOFILTRATION; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WASTE WATER;

EID: 0032491887     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-7388(97)00196-8     Document Type: Article

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